Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

From: Michael Bernstein (michael@seven-angels.net)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 12:52:21 EST


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Gabor MICSKO wrote:
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/40526/
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> interesting.
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Very interesting. It'd be interesting to see if they are able to do
this and get past the GPL. However, even if they are selling "Sys V"
or "Unixware" licenses, it doesn't mean that they have the right to
sell Linux licenses.

To put it simply, just because they "may," - and I say may here simply
because we have no evidence to prove their claims but cannot flatly
deny them - own the rights to Sys V, does NOT mean they own the right
to the code that was released under GPL and does NOT give them the
right to reassign a license to it.

If I were a lawyer for the FSF, I'd take this opportunity to
investigate how they are selling the licenses, and go smash them up...

Michael Bernstein
michael AT seven-angels DOT net

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